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Then the leaders of the ancestral clans of the L'vi'im approached El‘azar the cohen, Y'hoshua the son of Nun and the leaders of the ancestral clans of the tribes of the people of Isra'el. It was at Shiloh in the land of Kena‘an that they spoke to them; they said, " Adonai ordered through Moshe that we be given cities to live in, with the surrounding open land for our livestock." So out of their inheritance the people of Isra'el gave the L'vi'im the following cities with the surrounding open land: The lot came out for the families of the K'hati. The descendants of Aharon the cohen, who were of the L'vi'im, received by lot thirteen cities from the tribes of Y'hudah, Shim‘on and Binyamin. The rest of the descendants of K'hat received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Efrayim and Dan and the half-tribe of M'nasheh. The descendants of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Yissakhar, Asher, Naftali and the half-tribe of M'nasheh in Bashan. The descendants of M'rari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribes of Re'uven, Gad and Z'vulun. The people of Isra'el gave by lot to the L'vi'im these cities with the surrounding open land, as Adonai had ordered through Moshe. They gave from the tribe of the descendants of Y'hudah and from the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on these cities here mentioned by name; they were for the descendants of Aharon, of the families of the K'hati, who were among the descendants of Levi; because theirs was the first lot. They gave them: Kiryat-Arba — this Arba was the father of ‘Anak — (that is, Hevron), in the hills of Y'hudah, with the surrounding open land; but the fields and villages of the city they gave to Kalev the son of Y'funeh as his possession. Thus to the descendants of Aharon the cohen they gave: Hevron with its surrounding open land, already a city of refuge for the killer; Livnah with its surrounding open land; Yatir with its surrounding open land; Esht'moa with its surrounding open land; Holon with its surrounding open land; D'vir with its surrounding open land; ‘Ayin with its surrounding open land, Yutah with its surrounding open land and Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land — nine cities out of these two tribes. Out of the tribe of Binyamin: Giv‘on with its surrounding open land, Geva with its surrounding open land, ‘Anatot with its surrounding open land and ‘Almon with its surrounding open land — four cities. All the cities of the descendants of Aharon, the cohanim, numbered thirteen cities with their surrounding open land. The families of the descendants of K'hat, who were L'vi'im, that is, the rest of the descendants of K'hat, received the cities of their lot. Out of the tribe of Efrayim they gave them: Sh'khem with its surrounding open land, in the hills of Efrayim, the city of refuge for the killer; Gezer with its surrounding open land; Kivtzayim with its surrounding open land and Beit-Horon with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Dan: Elt'ke with its surrounding open land, Gib'ton with its surrounding open land, Ayalon with its surrounding open land and Gat-Rimmon with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the half-tribe of M'nasheh: Ta‘nakh with its surrounding open land and Gat-Rimmon with its surrounding open land — two cities. All the cities of the families of the rest of the descendants of K'hat numbered ten with their surrounding open land. To the descendants of Gershon, of the families of the L'vi'im, out of the half-tribe of M'nasheh they gave: Golan in Bashan with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; and B'esht'rah with its surrounding open land — two cities. Out of the tribe of Yissakhar: Kishyon with its surrounding open land, Dovrat with its surrounding open land, Yarmut with its surrounding open land and ‘Ein-Ganim with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Asher: Mishal with its surrounding open land, ‘Avdon with its surrounding open land, Helkat with its surrounding open land and Rechov with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Naftali: Kedesh in the Galil with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; Hammot-Dor with its surrounding open land; and Kartan with its surrounding open land — three cities. All the cities of the Gershuni according to their families were thirteen cities with their surrounding open land. To the families of the descendants of M'rari, the rest of the L'vi'im, out of the tribe of Z'vulun: Yokne‘am with its surrounding open land, Kartah with its surrounding open land, Dimnah with its surrounding open land and Nahalal with its surrounding open land — four cities. {Out of the tribe of Re'uven: Betzer with its surrounding open land, Yachtzah with its surrounding open land, K'demot with its surrounding open land and Mefa‘at with its surrounding open land — four cities.}* Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramot in Gil‘ad with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; Machanayim with its surrounding open land; Heshbon with its surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with its surrounding open land — four cities in all. All these were the cities of the descendants of M'rari according to their families, the rest of the families of the L'vi'im; their lot totaled twelve cities. All the cities of the L'vi'im, forty-eight cities with their surrounding open land, are to be in among the lands possessed by the people of Isra'el — these cities, each with its surrounding open land; thus is it to be with all these cities. So Adonai gave Isra'el all the land which he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and lived in it. Then Adonai gave them rest all around, according to everything he had sworn to their ancestors. Not a man from all their enemies stood against them; Adonai handed all their enemies over to them. Not one good thing that Adonai had spoken of to the household of Isra'el failed to happen; it all took place.

Rather, we did this out of anxiety, because we thought, ‘Sometime in the future, your descendants might say to our descendants, "You don't have anything to do with Adonai , the God of Isra'el,

because Adonai made the Yarden the border between us and you, so you descendants of Re'uven and Gad have no share in Adonai ."' In this way your descendants could make our descendants stop fearing Adonai .

Pinchas the son of El‘azar the cohen said to the descendants of Re'uven, the descendants of Gad and the descendants of M'nasheh, "Today we know that Adonai is here with us, because you have not committed this treasonous act against Adonai . Now you have saved the people of Isra'el from the anger of Adonai ."

You have seen everything that Adonai your God has done to all these nations because of you, for it is Adonai your God who has fought on your behalf.

why one man of you has chased a thousand — it is because Adonai your God has fought on your behalf, as he said to you.

because it is Adonai our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from a life of slavery, and did those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us all along the way we traveled and among all the peoples we passed through;

Y'hoshua said to the people, "You can't serve Adonai ; because he is a holy God, a jealous God, and he will not forgive your crimes and sins.

Y'hoshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will be a witness against us; because it has heard all the words of Adonai which he said to us; therefore it will be a witness against you, in case you deny your God."

Adonai was with Y'hudah, and they took possession of the hill-country, because they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, since they had iron chariots.

so the Asheri lived among the Kena‘ani who were living in the land, because they didn't drive them out.

So the anger of Adonai blazed against Isra'el; he said, "Because this nation violates my covenant, which I ordered their fathers to obey; and they don't pay attention to what I say;

But the people of Isra'el again did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai strengthened ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av against Isra'el, because they had done what was evil from Adonai 's perspective.

He said to them: "Follow me, because Adonai has given your enemy Mo'av into your hands. They went down after him, seized the fords of the Yarden opposite Mo'av and permitted no one to cross.

The people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , because he had 900 iron chariots, and for twenty years he cruelly oppressed the people of Isra'el.

She replied, "Yes, I will gladly go with you; but the way you are doing it will bring you no glory; because Adonai will hand Sisra over to a woman." Then D'vorah set out and went with Barak to Kedesh.

However, Sisra ran on foot to the tent of Ya‘el the wife of Hever the Keini, because there was peace between Yavin the king of Hatzor and the family of Hever the Keini.

Midyan exercised its power harshly against Isra'el, and because of Midyan the people of Isra'el hid themselves in mountains, in caves and in other safe places.

Isra'el became very discouraged because of Midyan, and the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai .

When the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai because of Midyan,